THE BRIDGE

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THE BRIDGE

Dreamed 1989/5/28, drawn as a low-res digital comic by Chris Wayan, 1990
Yes, the date is right--this is stone age digital art. I've doubled the display size, or it'd be unreadable--these pages were under 400 pixels wide!)

This is straight dream reporting--I was a cowboy who became a unicorn recruiting people to fight Reaganism. Except that I felt wrong drawing myself as human in the first part, so I substituted the coyote I'd been another night. The reluctance to appear human was so strong I didn't argue. Maybe I'm feeling rather ashamed of my species...

Shootout on the astral plane: me and Annie Oakley vs the Reagan Gang, on the Pontoon Bridge of the Dead, with Mahakala as referee. Reagan uses hypnotic gas...

As Reagan's hypnotic fog covers America, I leap into another world and become a unicorn. I hope in this form to lure women and horses to fight Reagan... or at least get some dates.

I sing 'come away with me, fight for love and life.' My unicorn body IS alluring: drunken cowboys hunt me. To ride, rape, eat, or sell? The moral: 'Don't be attractive unless you know who you'll attract.' Or is it: 'Too many gunslingin yahoos!'

NOTES

Mahakala is the Tibetan Buddhist god of right anger; a protector. As far as I know he hasn't really put out any TV ads yet.
Annie Oakley was a sharpshooter around 1900; her life inspired the musical "Annie, Get Your Gun." That inspired a dream where I was Oakley, in Annie, Get Your Gown!
The Hoover Institute at Stanford (on Page 2) is where Reagan's economic policies were thought out--to use "thought" loosely. Very loosely.
Tip o' the cowboy hat to Jonathan Swift, for the use of his Yahoos. Though there's plenty more where they came from, sigh...
I cringed, writing "Don't be attractive unless you know who you'll attract," for I don't want the Yahoos to win--to block the bridge, to keep us from becoming unicorns. But caution is advisable in a gun-slingin' world. I'm a unicorn these days, most of the time, but a gun-shy unicorn who keep his eyes open. You should too.
Art majors who are snickering at "Don't laugh, it's hard to paint with your horn", figuring it's a parody of Picasso's pompous pronouncement "A true artist paints with his cock!" are quite right. I always thought girls were better equipped to grip the brush than boys, and wanted him to show us how he did it. Well, no, on second thought I rather passionately didn't want him to show us... My list of the world's seven modern wonders omits the Cadmium Weenie. It was hard enough washing my horn off.

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